Differences among Latina/o, Asian American, and White Online Registrants in California

Abstract In September 2012, the California Secretary of State’s office offered eligible voters the opportunity to register online for the first time. This article analyzes those eligible voters that registered online for the November 2012 election. We find important differences among these registrants by ethnorace, age, and gender. We also find that a large proportion of these online registrants were new voters and that they did not concentrate in affluent census tracts, suggesting that this electoral reform did help to expand the electorate for that election.